More judges must to avoid judicial disaster
Says Law Commission's annual report submitted to President Abdul Hamid
Lamenting the very poor judge-people ratio in the country, the Law Commission has recommended the appointment of 200 judges every year to avert the collapse of the judiciary and to expedite trial processes.
"Over 30 lakh various cases have long been pending with different courts and the number is on the rise. A too inadequate number of judges are responsible to settle these cases," said the commission.
"But there is no way to deny that the rate of case settlement is higher than any other country of the world compared to the ratio of the judges. Our judiciary is bound to collapse if quick action is not taken to resolve this abnormal case backlog," it added.
The commission made the recommendations in its annual report -2015 submitted to President Abdul Hamid recently.
In its recommendations for the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, the commission suggested formation of a "monitoring cell" led by the chief justice to observe the case settlement at the High Court Division, and increasing the number of vacation benches to ensure quick sending of copies and records of the verdicts to lower courts.
About the lower courts, the commission suggested taking a number of steps to expedite trial process, including setting up of adequate courtrooms in courts across the country, introduction of computers for typing replacing the existing type machines and shunning delay without any reason.
It is the demand of time to establish "case management authority" at the national level to observe the status of cases under
trial across the country, observed the commission.